Chapter 98: Chapter 97: Acquisition!
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“Everything’s done.” Fishy Wells immediately nodded in agreement. With the financial proof provided by Finn Lewis, obtaining visas for any country was quite simple. Therefore, the passports and visas for Fishy and the others have been processed.
“Good, please decide as soon as possible, and give me a call once you’ve decided. If it’s for tomorrow, you guys can fly straight to Germany.” Finn pondered a bit before saying.
“Yes, young master!” Fishy Wells agreed and quickly nodded in consent.
With everything set except for the opportune moment, Finn naturally wouldn’t forget about his most desired course of action: to create a super impressive car of his own. In fact, he had already arranged for the car’s emblem. Admittedly, Finn had decided this automobile isn’t for the market to buy. Ultimately, acquiring the private car production workshop was to create cars for his personal use!
In terms of a zero-requirement type of personal workshop, there were only a few worldwide. Among them, Flying Horse, Volkswagen, and Eldora were undoubtedly Finn’s top choices. Germans are top-notch in the field of mechanical manufacturing worldwide, so naturally, these were under the spotlight for him. Volkswagen, thergest carpany in Germany and the secondrgest worldwide, was Finn’s first target.
Yes. vou read that correctlv. Germanv’srgest caroanv is not Flvinc
Horse or Eldora, but Volkswagen! When most people hear the name
Volkswagen, they picture ordinary family cars. However, the Volkswagen
Group owns many well-known brands such as Lanquoma, Volkswagen, Lamborghini, Bugatti Veyron, Ice Horse, Porsche, SEAT, Skoda, Scania and others. From family cars to luxury vehicles to sports cars, Volkswagen has all kinds of cars in its product range.
Volkswagen Group has numerous private manual workshops that meet Finn’s criteria. Even though both Flying Horse and Eldora produce luxury cars, they are also engaged in aviation engine production. The technical strengths of these twopanies are undoubtedly esteemed. But these capabilities are not what Finn needs, and even if needed, they would not sell.
What Finn needs is their manual production workshop and their skilled workers and engineers! Other things, like blueprints provided by Zero, are what Finn does not need at all. As for raw materials, Finn had already rified with Zero. All these materials can be produced with the current earth’s technology level, although it has not yet been discovered, and the conditions for production are quite harsh. The production is certainly feasible, but the cost would be high.
Conditions forrge-scale production are not yet mature, and it can only be experimentally produced in aboratory. However, the cost of car raw materials produced in this method would exceed 200 million me Nation coins! This is only for raw materials! It doesn’t include the costs for processing raw materials or other aspects such as circuit designs. Luckily for Zero, these things were not valuable.
So, Finn thought that after the new semester begins, he should systematically learn about this field. Because he discovered that many things in Zero’s possession cost very few points, but these items are indeed very high-end technologies on Earth. On the other hand, some items with high prices on Zero could actually be resolved by Earth technology.
These are the inconsistencies created due to the disparity in strength between both parties. But now, since Finn had quite limited knowledge in this field, he wasn’t able to take aplete measure of this yet.
Once he had finalized his itinerary, Finn went to sleep. Before Finn fell asleep, Fishy Wells called to confirm their flight to Germany. By the time Finn flew to Germany tomorrow, they should have arrived. This was because they caught the earliest flight, leaving just a few hourster.
Germans’ precision and rigidity are highlypatible with mechanical manufacturing, hence their exceptional achievements in this field make the world take notice.
Even though Germany may not be the world’srgest auto seller, it certainly sets the standard in the automotive industry. By the time Finnnded at the airport, Fishy Wells and Julia Parker were already there to receive him. Despite him having advised them to rest at the hotel first, seeing as they’d arrived about three hours earlier than him.
However, it seems that they didn’t do so. “Young master, the hotel arrangements areplete. It’s the best hotel in all of Berlin. We’ve already contacted Volkswagen, but it seems that they’re not very enthusiastic about our acquisition proposal.” Fishy Wells quickly reported.
“Hm.” Finn nodded, then looked towards a middle-aged man standing nearby, asking, ‘Who is this?”
“Hello, Mr. Lewis. My name is Truman Dale. I’m an expert in Germanw and a trantor.” While his me Nationnguage carried a slight German ent, Truman spoke quite standardly.
“Oh, hello.” Finn was quite pleased with the amount of work Fishy Wells and Julia Parker had aplished in just three hours. It seemed they were beginning to adjust to their professional roles.
As Truman spoke, he discreetly observed Finn. He clearly understood from her address of him as ‘young master’ in the me Nationnguage that Finn was of noble descent. Yet from his demeanor, he seemed far from aristocratic.
Truman imagined the term ‘young master’ as equivalent to a noble heir in the Southern Federation.
Up until now, Truman had no idea what Finn’s intentions were in Germany. Although, he hadpleted his tasks, which involved contacting Volkswagen and expressing the intentions of his client: to acquire a car manufacturilu factory under Volkswagen. However, Truman wasn’t particrly hopeful about his client’s ns. Had it been during the financial crisis of 2008 or 2009, when global car manufacturers faced capital shrinkage and market retraction, there would’ve been a chance. Despite this, Truman’s job was purely legal and linguistic; he was amercialvvyer and trantor in Germany..